Let's take a trip back in time. The year is 1994, and two tech giants are going to war over copyright. They are Microsoft and Apple, and they are fighting over a copyright claim by Apple over Microsoft and HP's use of graphical user interface element...

Microsoft's Bing search engine has just dropped the beta tag, a month and a half after Bing Maps was released. Not only that, but Bing Maps is now sporting a few additional nifty and useful applications. Microsoft's been looking for any edge it could...

The Nielsen Company released its U.S. search rankings for December 2009 earlier today. Of the big three -- Google, Yahoo and Bing -- Google saw an increase in search share, while both Yahoo and Bing faltered. Comparing December's data with some of th...

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is known for his antics, but — if a video recently uploaded to YouTube is to be believed — this incident takes the cake. Apparently, Ballmer fired a Microsoft employee for not being enthusiastic enough about Bing. The vide...

For decades, Microsoft has been a technological giant that nobody can ignore. This year has been a unique one for the Redmond, Washington-based company. It announced layoffs and revenue shortfalls, both rare occurrences in the company's 34+ year hist...

Since launching six months ago, Microsoft's Bing search engine has made strides to try to differentiate itself from the competition -- namely Google. Mobile is vitally important to the next phase of search, and Bing has aggressively targeted smartpho...

You can start a company with the best intentions, but when that company grows into an enormous entity like Google, it starts being so important to itself that those intentions often take a back seat to company's ambitions. After Google's CEO Eric Sch...

On Monday, Google announced real-time search, integrating content from Twitter, Facebook and other news sources into search results. We've been waiting to see how Google's competitors would respond to the announcement and today Yahoo has given us an ...

Google really unleashed a torrent of news and updates today. While events such as the launch of Google Goggles are very interesting, the big news is clearly the launch of real-time search within Google. Now as events unfold, Google will capture the c...

With the announcement of Google real-time search, the world's most popular search engine has thrown down the gauntlet in a battle it was already winning. Clearly recognizing the threat that the instantaneous nature of Facebook and Twitter represented...

We've had some close calls here in our ongoing Faceoff Series, but this week's was certainly not one of them. Each week we put two Web services, companies or pieces of software side by side and ask you which of the two would win in a knockdown, drag-...

The Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal, first announced back in July, has just been finalized by the two companies. Back in October, it was revealed that details were still being mulled over because of the deal's complexity, but this afterno...

Yesterday, Microsoft's search engine Bing was down for a period of time, displaying only a cryptic error message to the perplexed users. From what we've seen, the outage didn't last very long -- half an hour, perhaps -- but it was long enough to rais...

Update: Bing is back up. We've e-mailed Microsoft to find out what happened. - Bing, the third largest search engine and Microsoft's challenger to the dominance of Google, has gone down for the count. We have no idea when it will be back up. Here's t...

Earlier today, Microsoft revealed an array of new Bing features. The big show, though, was the release of Bing Maps Beta, a reinvention of its online map application. The new Bing Maps now boasts a Silverlight interface, its own version of Street Vie...

Microsoft has been trying to take down Google Search by not only advertising like mad, but by launching feature after feature. Now Bing is looking to outdo one of Google's best features: Google Maps. And it's making its attempt with its own version o...

We've seen a couple of heavy-hitting matchups in our Faceoff series in the last couple of weeks, with Google Android smashing Apple's iPhone and Verizon trouncing AT&T recently. This week we have another clash of the titans, with Microsoft's relative...

It isn't even December yet, but Microsoft's Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft "decision engine" has only b...

Newspapers and traditional media have seen their world and their business models crumble before their very eyes. Newspaper revenues have plummeted by nearly 30% in the last year alone, while newspaper circulation numbers are in the toilet. The web is...

The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to "Boycott Bing", claiming that Bing is censoring Simplified Chinese queries even outside the People's Republic of China. Last night, Bing responded to Kristof's Friday afterno...

Twilight New Moon mania is in full force. The movie opens on the 20th, but last night was the premiere in Westwood, with every new and old media entity alike hoping to capitalize on Twilight hysteria. We saw MySpace and UStream livestream the red car...

When it comes to shedding the beta tag, Microsoft is far quicker than Google (some of whose products have been called perpetual betas). Bing UK just lost its beta tag, and gained several interesting features, most importantly Bing Maps (which will re...

Microsoft seems to have decided that this week is "roll out new features" week for its upstart search engine Bing. Yesterday the search engine infused new features into Bing Maps, and it also transformed MSN Video into Bing Video. Today is no differe...

Earlier tonight, Microsoft unveiled the redesign to its MSN.com web portal. The new look is far more minimalistic than its predecessor, increases its integration with Bing, and adds a social layer to the aging (but still highly popular) Internet gate...

Today the Bing team announced some new updates to Bing for mobile. Although m.bing.com has always offered a mobile-optimized way to do local searches and view maps, the updates integrate some of Bing's killer features. Some of the new features includ...

The search engine market was once a fairly predictable and intriguing place where the mantra was "Google-and-everybody-else." There was innovation, but nobody really believed that Microsoft, Yahoo, or any other startup could pose a threat to Google's...

Last week launched the social revolution for search. Microsoft's Bing fired the first shot by announcing search deals with Twitter and Facebook and, at the Web 2.0 Summit, launching its Twitter integration. Google fired back almost immediately though...

Microsoft is out with its latest earnings report, and while Wall Street seems to be responding favorably to the news, the company continues to struggle financially in the area we focus most on – the Web. Specifically, the company’s online division re...

This morning, big news broke that Microsoft had penned deals with Facebook and Twitter that will integrate status updates from the two popular social media services into the Bing search engine. Now, the details of the deals are being revealed by Micr...

Microsoft’s latest effort to gain relevance in the search wars is about to get a whole lot more interesting. According to All Things Digital, the company is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook to integrate status updates into its Bin...

Since its official launch in June, the narrative for Microsoft's Bing search engine has largely been about growth in market share. That may be changing, as a new report from Experian Hitwise shows that Bing usage in the United States for the month of...

Between search engines and social media, there are a lot of different ways that people can get to your website. But which of these sources provides loyal users that come back to your site multiple times? That’s the subject of a new study by ad networ...

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